Saturday, April 20, 2013

Call For Artists

We need you!!

The
Allegany Arts Association is counting down to our first “You’ve Been Framed” Art Sale and this is a
reminder that we
need your help!

Frankly
we are getting a bit nervous since we do not have any way to request a presale
sign up and there is the thought of the utter horror of putting all of this
together and then not having anything to sell!
We are putting our faith in your generosity and your sense of adventure
to produce some wonderful items for our sale.
If you are a painter or a ceramist; a quilter or a basketweaver. If you do
any sort of art, which can be displayed in a frame of some sort - we need you!! Please
don’t worry if you don’t have a beautiful frame for your work. Though it would be preferable we would much
prefer to have a beautiful piece of art ready for a nice frame rather than an
empty frame. It just must be able to
maintain its shape and be able to be hung.

How the sale
works:

On
Tuesday; May 7th from 12 to 3 pm; Wednesday; May 8th from 12 to 3
and Thursday; May 9th from 4 to 7 we will be accepting entries. Any genre is acceptable as long as it can be
framed in some way and hung. It must be
no larger than 20 inches in any direction.
You may submit up to 3 pieces of work to the sale. Be creative.
Be fun. Be artistic. Be you.
(Just be. Please.)

On
Friday we kick off the sale with a Wine Tasting and Hors D’oeuvres from 5 to
8. Advance tickets are $10 and may be
purchased from members or at several sites around the county (watch for more
advertising on this). Tickets at the
door are $12. What a great time to
schmooze with fellow artists and art lovers!
The sale continues on Saturday with no admission for the general sale.

At
the sale framed items will be displayed with only a number on colored tags. The color indicates the price of the
item. Any item 10 inches or less is
$20. Items between 10” and 16” are $25
and items greater than 16” are $30. A
buyer selects a work of art by requesting the number from one of our
runners. Once the item is purchased the
new owner will discover who the artist is and the name of the work of art (if
it has been given one) by the tag that is on the back of the artwork. I guess we will find out if a signature does
indeed sell artwork or whether it is true that
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”
when it comes to art.

Since
there is no age limit for artists and the media could be as varied as the
talent of the contributors there should be something for everyone at the sale
and show. Expect the best pieces to be
snapped up on Friday evening but then again….maybe not.

You
will be given the opportunity to indicate to us whether you wish to donate the
item if it doesn’t sell at this sale (to be sold at a later date at another
location) or whether you will pick it up after the sale.